WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING BA (HONS)?
Read moreFrom poetry and playwriting to short stories and novels, you’ll focus on your existing creative passions and experiment with a wide range of styles, modes, and genres. You’ll be mentored by professional authors who can help you find your creative voice. You can see your work performed by actors in a staged reading, and get published in our student-led magazine – Show Don’t Tell – as well as our annual paperback anthology, the New Writing Series.
We’re a close-knit creative writing community and our students benefit from a high level of support from each other and staff. You’ll learn from award-winning lecturers who specialise in a variety of genres, including transgressive writing, confessional poetry, sci-fi, horror, and speculative fiction. These include Professor Nigel McLoughlin – twice shortlisted for the Hennessey Award, and whose work has appeared in The
COURSE MODULES
Here's an example of the types of modules you'll study (the contents and structure of the course are reviewed occasionally, but it is unlikely that there will be significant change).
Module information is not available for this programme.
- Level 4 (Undergraduate year 1)All students must complete these modules:
- Digital Humanities (HM4003)
- Creative Writing Skills (HM4004)
- Poetry: Foundations and Legacies (HM4007)
- Prose Fundamentals (HM4103)
- Dramatic Writing Fundamentals (HM4104)
- Research and Enquiry (HM5001)
- Engaging Humanities (HM5002)
- Poetry and Poetics (HM5101)
- Advanced Prose: The Short Story (HM5102)
- Writing the Novel (HM5105)
- Ideas, Inspirations, and Contexts (HM5107)
- Advanced Dramatic Writing (HM5108)
- The Writing Business & The Professional Writer (HM6116)
- Autobiography, Confession, & Creative Nonfiction (HM6104)
- Fictionalising the Recent Past: Writing About Modern History (HM6108)
- Poetry Masterclass (HM6110)
- Contemporary Dramatic Writing (HM6112)
- Writing Genre from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter (HM6113)
- Innovation and Prose Masterclass (HM6114)
- Taboo from de Sade to Kathy Acker (HM6115)
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